Quick Take By the 1880s and 1890s, fewer than 1,000 bison remained in the wild, a stark warning about unchecked exploitation.

Quick Take Preventing total extinction necessitated a successful recovery from a remnant population of only 1,000 bison. The ...

Across Montana’s eastern plains, few sights register as strongly as a bison herd navigating open grassland. Although the ...

With Indigenous Peoples’ Day Monday, October 13, we look at the herds of bison many tribes relied on that were nearly wiped out. Year and Population 1800 – 5 million 1875 – 1 million 1880 – 395,000 ...

Kansas did not pick the plains bison as one of its state animals just because it looked cool on a flag; lawmakers chose to ...

Several years ago, I had the chance to drive around the Dakotas and was struck by the haunting beauty and the sheer immensity ...

Overview: The decline and fall of the bison empire / Geoff Cunfer -- Reviewing an iconic story: environmental history and the demise of the bison / Dan Flores -- People and bison in the ancient past - ...

“Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the saga of early westward struggles and the kind of character it took to ...

The wildlife I am writing about today, the American bison, isn’t really anything you will find in your backyard in the Northeast. The American bison got close to us in upstate New York (Buffalo, New ...

With Indigenous Peoples’ Day Monday, October 13, we look at the herds of bison many tribes relied on that were nearly wiped out. Today, Department of Labor lands currently support 17 bison herds in 12 ...